The Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group
By Dan Cranefield, Senior Engineering Manager, BBC Tel OBs.
Dan Cranefield recalls his involvement with the BBC coverage of the 40th and 50th anniversaries of the D Day landings from Arromanches and Bayeux in France.
Continue reading “BBC coverage of 40th and 50th anniversaries of the D Day landings”Robin Stonestreet has been in touch with us with a list of BBC CMCRs (Colour Mobile Control Rooms). This draws on earlier work by Jerry Clegg with extra input from Brian Summers and Richard Harris.
Continue reading “BBC CMCR list”Television Outside Broadcasts History: “The Roving Eye”.
Compiled by Richard Harris. Updated 2020-07-20.
This brief history follows the development of the BBC facility providing real-time television pictures from moving vehicles to bring action pictures to viewers.
Continue reading “The Roving Eye”Alan Taylor sent us these pictures of the former BBC LO-4 Type 5 scanner being hoisted into the garden of the Lock Keeper’s Cottage at Bow.
Continue reading “Ex BBC Type 5 for Channel 4’s Big Breakfast”
Carry on Trucking – Jeffrey Borinsky
While many enthusiasts collect radios and televisions, broadcasting equipment is a more neglected area. The Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group (BECG) is a group of people who rescue, restore and conserve historic UK television equipment, focusing on the engineering aspects. We aim to use this to present television history to the public. Continue reading “Carry on Trucking”
By Dan Cranefield, Senior Engineering Manager, BBC Tel OBs
Dan Cranefield recalls the days before satellite uplinks.
Continue reading “Radio Links from Outside Broadcasts in the 1960s”
By Dan Cranefield, Senior Engineering Manager, BBC Tel OBs
I was the Senior Engineering Manager in charge of all the technical arrangement for the Wedding and in charge of the main site at Westminster Abbey, working to the main Producer, Tim Marshall.
By Dr Paul Marshall
How does traditional analogue television work? That’s a question beyond the comfort zone of most media historians who may not be familiar with analogue electronics. Even young engineers know little of thermionics, cathode rays and a myriad of other forgotten technologies. This important facet of television’s history is now only recorded by older engineers and by amateur groups who collect these technologies. In this paper, I will show by using examples how material artefacts can help us understand television’s history more fully.
Keywords: broadcasting, engineering, television, conservation, restoration, preservation
How to Cite: Marshall, P., 2019. Making Old Television Technology Make Sense. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 8(15), pp.32–45. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc163
Read the article here: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc163
A recent addition to the website, but a vehicle we have been involved with for a few years is EHX86V, one of The BBC Type 5 units, designated LO6 or CMCR20.
See the project page for more details.
We’ve been busy with some more work on Project Vivat, See the Vivat latest news page for more details.